White Papers Buy? Build? Why Not Both? | Page 5

Buy? Build? Why Not Both?

A ComTechAdvisory Whitepaper

Figure 1: The Brady Service Inventory

Figure 2: Brady Web Framework Benefits

those who want to develop custom functionality while taking
their vanilla functionality from a vendor. The top tier that sees
build as the way to go can get there faster and more cost effectively by selecting a hybrid solution of existing Brady services,
third-party solutions and then utilizing the Brady SDK to devel-

op custom services and manage the integration. Essentially,
new applications can be built rapidly in a consistent fashion
and with a similar look and feel. This allows the internal developers to focus squarely on the business content as opposed to
build all of the plumbing and architecture from scratch.

CONCLUSION
Today, the decision is no longer simply buy or build. Service oriented architectures mean that a hybrid approach can be taken
utilizing commercially available services from Brady and supplementing that with custom functionality built with the Brady SDK.
This hybrid approach can also integrate data sources and utilize third-party functionality to knit together a custom solution that
provides all of the benefits with few of the downsides to a custom build including ensuring a forward upgrade path. The approach
further benefits the user in terms of overall cost, adaptability and speed of deployment. The hybrid approach is now very much a
feasible way forward.

© Commodity Technology Advisory LLC, 2016, All Rights Reserved.